Streams of Life Coventry

WELCOME

Welcome to Streams of Life Coventry. Streams of Life is an all-age church, with people from many walks of life united by our love for Jesus. We welcome people from every background and culture to meet with us and experience God's presence and love.
The good news is that God's love reaches out to all. If you would like to know God's love and forgiveness, follow this link: Good News

Where & when to find us:

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, in accordance with government directives, our Sunday gatherings at Alderman's Green School are suspended until further notice.

Join us on Zoom! (except 30th August)
Since Sunday 22nd March, we have been holding our weekly Sunday meetings LIVE at the normal time (10.45am) via video conferencing (Zoom) for all those with smartphones, tablets or home computers/laptops with wifi or data. Zoom can be downloaded free of charge to your device. It is also possible to take part by audio only using a landline or basic mobile phone.
Just the meeting ID or link is required to join us. This is posted each week on our church WhatsApp group.
Worship with lyrics onscreen is played from 10.30am as people gather and we begin with a welcome at 10.45am. We usually finish before 12noon.
If you would like to join us, please phone Angus on 07874 691211 for more info and the meeting ID no.

Update from the Leadership Team - August 2020.
You may be wondering about our current thinking on returning to face to face meetings, now that the guidance has changed to make this possible. Of course, it would be great to be able to meet face to face. However, at Streams of Life, we still face a number of issues that would make a return to physical meetings very challenging.

As we meet in a school, there is now a rigorous cleaning regime. Currently the school would not want a totally different group of people to come in on a Sunday when they have to be open on Monday morning. . Any change in this is dependent on the prevalence of Covid 19 receding. Keep praying! A "second spike" would make things much more challeging for everybody.
Even if we got the go ahead to meet, a number of people in the church are classed as clinically vulnerable. So until the virus threat recedes much further, they would have to maintain strict social distancing or perhaps stay away.
Setting up for a physical Sunday meeting requires a big team effort, so reduced numbers would make this a much greater challenge. Maintaining social distancing would be difficult, and virtually impossible for the children!
The experience would be very different: Singing is a major part of what we do, and it would not be permitted under current rules! Also we would not be able to serve tea, coffee or snacks. You would need to bring your own drinks and snacks! And the government guidelines say that people should not socialise before or after the service and should depart as quickly as possible. It would be a far cry from what we are used to!

There are definitely some positives with the current situation:

Using Zoom is mostly working well, for our Sunday mornings and also for smaller meetings - Houses of Prayer, cell groups, Kids' Church and even the Alpha Course. It has also enabled us to meet much more regularly as a leadership team. This way we can "gather" with zero risk of infection.

It is simple to join in, and our Sunday attendances have been consistently good. Online meetings make it much easier for new people to join us by invitation, and we have seen a number of different people join us over these months. The break out groups are also giving people the opportunity to chat with and get to know different people in the church.

Although Zoom meetings can be challenging (and stressful for the leaders!) when the technology goes wrong, we have been able to do some things we could not have done meeting physically, like having worship led from Finland and main talks from Germany and London!

As lockdown measures have eased, it is allowable for people to meet together in groups of up to 6 outdoors, so we would encourage SoL people to get together in small groups for fellowship - whilst still maintaining social distancing of course. As long as it is only two households, meeting indoors is also permitted. Given our dodgy climate, this could be very useful!

We continue to closely monitor the situation, government guidelines and medical advice, and aim to keep everyone updated. As things currently stand, we feel it will be wise for us to continue meeting by Zoom for the foreseeable future until it is clearly safe for us all to meet physically.

We plan to continue with Zoom Sunday meetings throughout the Summer, with the exception of the 3oth August (Bank Holiday weekend), and it is very likely that this will continue throughout the Autumn period. Any change will be posted on this site and our Church News WhatsApp group.

In the meantime, please feel free to give any of us a ring if you are struggling in any way during this challenging time and would like to talk and/or would like some prayer.

In normal times (!), we meet almost* every Sunday at:
Alderman’s Green Primary School, Alderman's Green Road, Coventry, CV2 1PP.
Important: Please use the entrance off the main road, opposite Sledmere Close, (Look for our banner).

We serve tea, coffee & snacks from 10.30am, a relaxed time to chat and get to know people, and our worship begins at 10.45am.

Please note: There is NO access via the main school entrance opposite Wyken Slough car park, which is kept locked.

Please visit our meetings page for more information about what to expect on a Sunday morning.

*Any exceptions will be posted on this page.
We usually take a break in August, after Christmas and when the church meets with other churches at Motofest (Early June). Any changes will be posted on this page well in advance.

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